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Metalheads almost never allow folk flavors to impinge on their wrathful pounding, so System of a Down, an Armenian-American metal band, is as refreshing as a whiff of shish kebab in a Burger King. Its music has a near Eastern feel, a sound akin to what Metallica might produce in a revival of Fiddler on the Roof. Moreover, the band knows raunchy from bad: drug dealers and groupies get their due tongue lashings. Best of all, the group keeps most songs under three minutes, a suitable dose of new metal for ears still traumatized by old metal's five...
...issue is not perfect accuracy: much officially released information is as correct as it can be in the immediate fog of war. More troubling is the occasional whiff of deception, incompetence or economy with truth. Recently, U.S. officials made classic, self-defeating errors. When the Taliban produced jerky video of a helicopter undercarriage marked "Boeing," the Pentagon dismissed it, citing the Taliban?s "completely outrageous . . . outright lies" and "exaggerations." The next day, it admitted the undercarriage of a Blackhawk helicopter was ripped off flying at low level. At first, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld insisted there was "absolutely no evidence" that...
Flowers’ depiction of Kastoria and its inhabitants does no more than tantalize with the smallest whiff of their world. The stale stock characters are callously served in their place. We meet a young man who yearns for adventure, but he leaves us just as he is about to go follow...
...later. Most everybody who's going to say, "It's good to see you up and around and looking well," has said it. My chest aches less. Early this morning I walked out the front door and bent and picked up the morning paper. Cool air, distant traffic, a whiff of lilies from along the driveway, and in the park across the street, a woman loping along with a yellow Lab. After a heart operation, it is all indescribably beautiful...
...mother's doctor said she'll live to 100 b) falling off his horse playing polo c) finding out what being a tampon would really entail d) one whiff of Fergie's new recipe: Spleens and Beans...